In return for his guilty plea Monday to aggravated manslaughter, the Burlington County prosecutor agreed to recommend 10 years in state prison for Darren Winningham, 44, when he is sentenced April 27 before Superior Court Judge Terrence R. Cook.

County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said on the night of April 23, 2016, police officers from Delanco, Delran, Edgewater Park and Riverside Township responded to a call about a person with a gun at a party inside an apartment in the 200 block of Hooker Street.

Officers found Nikita Cross, 35, of Galloway Township, lying on the floor with a
gunshot wound to her chest.

Coffina said she later was pronounced dead at Lourdes Medical Center in Willingboro. Winningham was arrested without incident and has remained since then in the Burlington County Jail.